One of my pet peeves is going out to eat at a nice restaurant, especially one with a decent wine list, yet carries all of four or five beers. Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Blue Moon and if you’re lucky they have Shiner Bock, Sam Adams Boston Lager or New Belgium Fat Tire.

Thank heavens for those last three, they’ve bailed me out more than a few times. Still, they are the safest choices from three good breweries that have much better brews to offer.

So Freetail’s Metgzer is throwing down the gauntlet to San Antonio restaurants and, as is his fashion, isn’t just griping but also offerring solutions and help. Here’s just a portion of what he has to say:

Today I’m announcing my personal quest to reform the beer landscape in my town, San Antonio. I won’t stop until all of my city’s top restaurants and most celebrated chefs are smartly featuring craft beer. If a chef or beverage program manager feels lost in the world of craft beer, I personally volunteer my services to help you establish a quality beer program. [Note, I can't legally sell you beer from my own brewery, so there is no secret agenda here] It doesn’t have to be expansive to be respectable. It doesn’t have to require a single cent of capital investment. If you are serving ANY beer at your establishment now, we can transform your beer list.

If you want to enlist my services, or just to report your progress in featuring craft beer, tweet me @beermonkey or shoot me an email at news at freetailbrewing dot com. I’ll establish and maintain a webpage with list of craft beer-friendly restaurants and happily feature you on it.

I can hardly wait to see the list of beer-friendly restaurants. A few out there are already doing a very nice job, Luke San Antonio, The Monterrey, even the BJ’s Brewhouse chains carry a lot of really good beers beyond their “house” beers.